Enrollment year
2017/2018
Academic discipline
BIO/14 (PHARMACOLOGY)
Department
DEPARTMENT OF INTERNAL MEDICINE AND THERAPEUTICS
Course
MEDICINE AND SURGERY
Curriculum
PERCORSO COMUNE
Period
1st semester (01/10/2019 - 10/01/2020)
Lesson hours
8 lesson hours
Activity type
WRITTEN AND ORAL TEST
Prerequisites
Prerequisites for this course are Anatomy, Physiology, Biology and Biochemistry.
Learning outcomes
After the course, the student should have general knowledge of what a drug is, how drugs can be administered, what drugs do to the body, what the body does to drugs, and how drugs are metabolised and eliminated.
Pharmacodynamics
Course contents
How drugs act: general aspect (the binding of drugs to the cells), molecular aspects (Targets for drug actions, Receptors proteins, Receptors and diseases). The effects of agonists, inverse agonists, partial agonists and antagonists.
Teaching methods
Lectures
Reccomended or required readings
Rang, Humphrey P.Dale, M. Maureen - "Rang & Dale's Pharmacology"
Assessment methods
The examination comprises open questions.
Further information
To request a meeting, write to
mariapia.vairetti@unipv.it
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